Catalogue description Content: Folios 112-113. Letter from Joseph Lowndes, Clerk to the Guardians of the...

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Details of MH 12/11196/41
Reference: MH 12/11196/41
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Content: Folios 112-113. Letter from Joseph Lowndes, Clerk to the Guardians of the Wolstanton and Burslem Poor Law Union, to the Poor Law Commission, reporting the decisions of second meeting of the board of guardians with Thomas Stevens, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, in the chair. The Workhouse Committee appointed at the first meeting reported that Burslem Workhouses had recently been enlarged to 16 rooms on the ground floor and 14 sleeping rooms (excluding the governor's rooms) now occupied by 109 inmates. The house could take 250-300. There was space for a new building for 100 which would make the house fit for purpose for the whole union. Wolstanton Workhouse had ten rooms on the ground floor including the master's and matron's rooms, with 12 sleeping rooms in addition. 70 inmates reported and the house thus quite full. No space for expansion. A recommendation was made that this house be sold or converted into cottages and let. The board resolved that Burslem Workhouse be used for all the able bodied males and females. Wolstanton house to be kept for the aged, infirm and children. No additional building to be done at present. Joseph Boulton resigned as Relieving Officer and Elias Barlow was appointed in his place at £120 per annum, he to continue to reside at Wolstanton Workhouse as superintendent there at no extra salary but to be on maintenance there with his wife as matron. Joseph Boulton to be appointed as 'assistant clerk' at a salary of £120 per annum 'to make out the rate books, and check books for the collectors, the lists of voters and jury lists' and to act as vestry clerk. James Clay and Samuel Malkin were appointed Collectors in Burslem for six months at two and a half percent of amount collected. Henry Mattison appointed Collector in Wolstanton at £120 per annum out of which to pay William Barlow as his assistant. Resolved to make a call of 25 percent 'upon the declared averages' of the two parishes with ten percent before 1 May and fifteen percent by 13 May. Tenders for provisions were dealt with. Meeting adjourned to 24 April. Annotated: by Thomas Stevens asking that all these procedures be sanction as Barlow and Lowndes are too valuable to let go and much litigation will be avoided by their retention. Further annotated that sanction be granted for the present year, but that in future one clerk be appointed competent for the whole business. Paper number: 4520/C/1838. Poor Law Union Number 415. Counties: Staffordshire.
Date: 18 April 1838
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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